Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winning Government approval to go into the banking business, other money managers will not be far behind. Bruce Bent, president of the Reserve Fund, the 20th-ranked money fund with $3.5 billion in assets, admits his firm has been considering buying or starting a bank for eight months. Says...
Frankly, when Anders was just about to begin. I was sure he would do it straight," says Chris Librie, now a senior at the University of Pennsylvania. "Then, he bent down behind the podium, put on the Groucho Mars fake nose, glasses and moustache and right away got a standing ovation...
Another official within the division commented that Harburg's increased ties to the K-School, where he directed the Center for Health Policy and Management, had caused problems for him in the other school, which may have perceived a "K-School bent" in his approach...
...problem: Moffett's own liberal credentials on both economic and social issues are letter-perfect, and his sharp criticism of Administration policies has given him a high profile in the House. An earnest former Nader Raider who came to the House as part of the reform-bent class of '74 in Watergate's wake, he asserts that Reaganomics is "cruel and destructive." He contends that the defense budget must be substantially cut. While depicting Weicker as hopelessly isolated, Moffett constantly stresses the argument that his own election will help the Democrats regain control of the Senate...
Lloyd Webber's task was to find a musical vocabulary that parallels Eliot's individual profiles of the cats. Here, Lloyd Webber's bent for the derivative is something of a help. He moves easily from rock to swing to ballad to full-throated hymnal invocation. That he overpowers as much as he underscores may be due to the Winter Garden's rabid amplification...